Freedom at Midnight: Inspiration for the major motion picture Viceroy’s House
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Dominique Lapierre. Freedom at Midnight: Inspiration for the major motion picture Viceroy’s House
FREEDOM AT MIDNIGHT. INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE. VICEROY’S HOUSE. Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
COPYRIGHT
EPIGRAPH
CONTENTS
LIST OF MAPS
PREFACE
PROLOGUE
ONE ‘A Race Destined to Govern and Subdue’
TWO ‘Walk Alone, Walk Alone’
THREE ‘Leave India to God’
FOUR. A Last Tattoo for the Dying Raj
FIVE. An Old Man and his Shattered Dream
SIX. A Precious Little Place
SEVEN. Palaces and Tigers, Elephants and Jewels
EIGHT. A Day Cursed by the Stars
NINE. The Most Complex Divorce in History
TEN ‘We Will Always Remain Brothers’
ELEVEN. While the World Slept
TWELVE ‘Oh Lovely Dawn of Freedom’
THIRTEEN ‘Our People Have Gone Mad’
FOURTEEN. The Greatest Migration in History
FIFTEEN ‘Kashmir – only Kashmir!’
SIXTEEN. Two Brahmins from Poona
SEVENTEEN ‘Let Gandhi Die!’
EIGHTEEN. The Vengeance of Madanlal Pahwa
NINETEEN ‘We Must Get Gandhi Before the Police Get Us’
TWENTY. The Second Crucifixion
EPILOGUE
WHAT THEY BECAME. VALLABHBHAI PATEL
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU
THE MOUNTBATTENS
THE MAHARAJAS
BIBLIOGRAPHY. I Books
II Official Documents. ACTS OF PARLIAMENT
INDIAN STATUTORY COMMISSION REPORT
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS
TIME ONLY TO LOOK FORWARD
III Newspapers and Periodicals. ENGLAND
FRANCE
INDIA
PAKISTAN
UNITED STATES
IV Special Documents Relating to Gandhi’s Murder and the Trial of his Assassins made available to Authors. CRIME REPORTS
GANDHI’S; ASSASSINATION AND I
REPORT OF INVESTIGATION MURDER
REPORT OF THE COMMISSION OF ENQUIRY INTO CONSPIRACY TO MURDER MAHATMA GANDHI
INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
NOTES
ALSO BY THE AUTHORS
ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
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‘The responsibility for governing India has been placed by the inscrutable design of providence upon the shoulders of the British race.’
RUDYARD KIPLING
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Unfortunately, those masses were not everywhere silent. Riots erupted. The most serious were in Amritsar in the Punjab. To protest against the restrictions clamped on their city as a result, thousands of Indians gathered on 13 April, for a peaceful but illegal meeting in a stone- and debris-littered compound called Jallianwalla Bagh.
There was only one entrance to the compound down a narrow alley between two buildings. Through it, just after the meeting had begun, marched Amritsar’s Martial Law Commander, Brigadier R. E. Dyer, at the head of fifty soldiers. He stationed his men on either side of the entry and, without warning, opened fire with machine-guns on the defenceless Indians. For ten full minutes, while the trapped Indians screamed for mercy, the soldiers fired. They fired 1650 rounds. Their bullets killed or wounded 1516 people. Convinced he’d ‘done a jolly good thing’, Dyer marched his men back out of the Bagh.
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